Do Females Face More Societal Pressure Than Males
Present an interesting and significant topic
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Use sources purposefully and ethically.
In this assignment, you will be doing all three of those things as you uncover your research, evaluate your information, and illustrate your thesis. Make sure you aren’t just writing a report about a subject, you want to have an argument about that subject. Use your resources to strengthen and support the credibility of your point.
Directions: Your research paper should be:
1000 words
Use in-text citation with signal phrases. Quotes, paraphrases and summaries must be cited. Indicate what source you used at the end of the information you use. Read pages 486-494 very carefully. There you will find examples of how to cite your work.
Use signal phrases to introduce quotes, paraphrases and summaries. Signal phrases let the reader know you are going to use someone else's words and/or information. See pages 486 "Identifying the Source" for a list of signal phrases.
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Two different sources are required for each paragraph. Each paragraph must have at least two different sources to argue your point.
MLA style See (Ch. 31) or Purdue Owl, MLA Formatting and Guide, or MLA Module
Work Cited page - with a minimum of five resources. Only list those sources mentioned in your paper. If you use ANY information from a source, cite the source in your essay and include it in your Works Cited page. See page 527 for an example of what a Works Cited page looks like. Notice the formatting.
highlight the thesis statement in yellow - it is the last sentence of your introduction paragraph. This sentence will guide your essay.
highlight the main idea sentences of each paragraph in yellow. For this assignment, the first sentence of every paragraph. Every paragraph must have a main idea. A main idea is a sentence. It begins with a capital letter and ends with a period. It is not part of a sentence. You should only have ONE main idea sentence for each paragraph.
highlight the in text citation used at the end of the sentence in LIGHT blue.(Do not use dark blue. If I cannot see under the highlight, it is incorrect.) Only highlight the source (in text citation), not the whole quote. You should have two per paragraph. Review Chapters 29 and 31.
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Essay Format: MLA
Title: Be creative.
Introduction Paragraph: Introduction - Give background information about your topic. What does the reader need to know to understand your essay? Your thesis statement will be the last sentence of your introduction.
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Do Females Face More Societal Pressure than Males
Humans do not exist in a vacuum. Rather, they stay in a society that shapes their daily lives directly and indirectly. In particular, society plays a major role in the way individuals view the world around them and guides their actions. No one can deny the influence of society in establishing the choices that people make. Influence often comes through societal pressure, whereby the community around an individual plays a significant role in shaping their lives, including influencing how they behave and their overall well-being. Pressure comes to different individuals in different ways. In today’s world where commercial adverts, celebrities, magazines and social media dominate, these have pressure as the common denominator. In this context, the impact of pressure on gender is a long-held debate. There is no right or wrong answer to the debate given that different viewpoints point in different directions on the matter. While males and females face societal expectations, females face a disproportionate amount of pressure compared to their counterparts males.
Scholars like Clay, Vignoles and Dittmar (458) agree that females face immense pressure to conform to narrow beauty standards. From a tender age, girls are told that their looks are very important. Cultures around the world amplify this by putting women's and girls’ bodies at the center of intrigue based on connotations associated with beauty like sexuality. Traditional and social media does not make it better. Media is at the forefront of setting standards about beauty by displaying images and videos of women and girls who are propagated as beautiful. There is a lot of emphases on females’ physical appearance, which can lead to destructive body image expectations. These pressures often come in the form of advertisements in magazines, TV and social media, perpetrating an unrealistic outlook and definition of beauty. Surprisingly, Quittkat et al. (864) highlight that males do not face such a disproportionately high pressure to conform to unrealistic standards of beauty. Such a distorted view leaves males with less pervasive and demanding pressure than females. When the media portrays ideal male physiques, the emphasis is not as intense as on females. This creates an unbalanced view regarding women, making them more vulnerable to harmful practices like body dissatisfaction, low self-esteem and eating disorders as Aparicio-Martinez and others (4177) observe.
The education editor for BBC Branwen Jeffreys indicates that girls and women face more pressure to be perfect, especially in educational achievement. Girls face heightened pressure from society to excel academically compared to boys. The empowerment of women has prompted the need for girls to attend school and achieve more. Education is considered an ingredient for the empowerment of girls. While this is a good move, it subjects girls in school to immense pressure to achieve more academically. Females are expected to excel by performing exceptionally well in all subjects. The pressure makes school girls anxious and creates self-doubt for those who are unable to meet the high targets. On the contrary, while society pressures boys to achieve academically, this tends to be less persuasive. Society considers boys to have alternative ways of succeeding including pursuing nonacademic interests like sports. This leaves girls with more pressure to score higher grades than boys, even when this is not viable for some of them.
Moreover, women encounter gender stereotypes and biases which limit the opportunities available to them. Despite t...